Fedora Magazine: notes
by Mel Chua
David Nalley brought out a convo to public IRC today (it's bounced
around a bit in private email, I found out about it last night, and we
agreed there wasn't any reason not to have this convo on a public
list/channel, so here we go).
We logged our IRC conversation (w00t transparency - I'm trying to make
logging important IRC convos and summarizing them to the list a cultural
norm here).
Basically:
* Linux Pro Magazine (via the awesome Rikki Kite) can print a special
Fedora issue.
* This would cost us money (on the order of magnitude of $10k, though we
can recoup that if people pay for issues)
* This would ideally look like "Fedora Insight: The Print Version" (we'd
want the content to be community-contributed rather than hiring outside
writers, because Fedora already has awesome writers)
* If we want it for F12, we have to decide by the end of this week and
somebody has to step up to lead/drive/edit/etc. this project (a somewhat
monumental task)
* We can do this for a later release too, there's nothing particularly
special about right now
* Right now, unless a miracle happens and somebody *really* wants to do
this, we do not have the bandwidth to do it well for F12, but it would
be awesome to do it for a later release, so we should talk with Rikki to
see what the timing for an F13 or F14 print issue would look like.
And that's where things stand right now. Comments and thoughts welcome,
as always.
The full log is at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2009, or go directly
to the log here:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-mktg/2009-09-02/fedora-mktg.2009-...
14 years, 6 months
usesthis.com interview
by Máirín Duffy
Hi,
I was interviewed by waferbaby (Daniel Bogan) about my hardware/software
setup and I go through my usage of Fedora in the interview:
http://mairin.duffy.usesthis.com/
Daniel's got some really interesting interviews on usesthis.com, e.g.,
with Jakob Nielsen and Joe Hewitt (creator of Firebug). Also an
interview with Danah Boyd from Microsoft Research who surprisingly uses
a Mac...
Anyhow since Fedora is mentioned quite extensively I figured I'd point
it out.
~m
14 years, 6 months
Fedora swag
by Eelko Berkenpies
Hi there,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but here it goes;
Since I'm getting more and more of a Fedora enthusiast I was looking
for some cool office accessories today. After doing a quick search I
ended up at RedHat's on-line store with a very limited range of
accessories. Anyway, I noticed the $2,- decals and I put a few of them
in my shopping chart. (about 5). While trying to figure out the rest
of the order procedure I came across the shipping costs. It turned out
that $65 (or $120 depending on shipping method) would be added to the
current order (still 5 stickers) to get them shipped over to The
Netherlands. Heck, if the money would all go to the Fedora Project I
might have even considered buying them but I wasn't planning on
sponsoring UPS too. :)
After taking a little bit more time I bumped into an other
possibility; a French web-shop which had a whole wardrobe of fedora
clothing (and yet again very limited accessories). Besides that, I
don't know French and I couldn't discover a possibility to switch to
English (I might have not looked good enough though).
So still no luck.
I also found out that there's a Fedora Shop SIG at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Store (referring to this
mailinglist). Unfortunately the most recent activity seems to be
somewhere around in 2008. Now my actual question; is this SIG still
alive and if not, how much interest is there to reincarnate it? I'd be
happy to assist where I can.
The reason that I'm asking here is because the page doesn't state on
contacting a person or other mailing-list than this one.
Thank you for your time.
--
With kind regards / Met vriendelijke groet,
Eelko Berkenpies
http://blog.berkenpies.nl/
14 years, 7 months
Zikula questions at this week's Marketing meeting
by Mel Chua
Toshio had some questions about some of the module packages (context
pasted below).
<abadger1999> mchua: So for the secondary package (pagemaster) -- I'm
not happy approving it with the bundled filterutils
<abadger1999> mchua: I've been trying to catch itbegins on irc to ask
him about when zikula2 will be out/whether we can upgrade to that in
FI/EPEL or if it's incompatible, etc.
<abadger1999> mchua: There are cases where other packages had contained
backports -- but to things from the Core language (python stdlib stuff
is what I'm thinking) not to addons.
<abadger1999> mchua: Anyhow -- If someone else wanted to review and
approve that module, we'd want to make sure that it used the zikula-2
library i available and the backport if not... but I'm not sure how to
do that in php.
Simon, in case you see this in the next 50 minutes - were you planning
on coming to the Fedora Marketing meeting today? I'm going through the
agenda now and it looks like FI should be most of it. (If not, no
worries, I'll keep logistics up to date on zikula and marketing up to
date on FI, and keep chasing these answers down.)
--Mel
14 years, 7 months
Upcoming schedule tasks
by John Poelstra
Name Start End
In-depth feature profiles: 0% to 75% complete Tue 2009-08-04 Tue
2009-09-29
Collaboration with Red Hat Brand on marketing materials Wed 2009-08-26
Wed 2009-09-02
Open call for release slogans Thu 2009-09-10 Thu
2009-09-10
Release slogan selection Thu 2009-09-10 Thu
2009-09-17
14 years, 7 months
Marketing meeting minutes, 2009-09-01
by Mel Chua
Wow. It's September already.
Notes up at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#2009, and
at the links below.
For everyone who's at the Summit - have fun, kick ass, and we'll see you
next week!
--Mel
<zodbot> Meeting ended Tue Sep 1 21:03:39 2009 UTC. Information about
MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot .
<zodbot> Minutes:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-01/fedora-meeting...
<zodbot> Minutes (text):
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-01/fedora-meeting...
<zodbot> Log:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2009-09-01/fedora-meeting...
Short notes:
1. Roll Call (mchua, 20:01:12)
1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_meetings#Agenda
(mchua, 20:03:44)
2. How are folks doing? (mchua, 20:04:33)
3. Release deliverables (mchua, 20:07:45)
1. ACTION: mchua to forward email to marketing professors
about having their classes help with Fedora Marketing deliverables
(mchua, 20:12:59)
2. AGREED: Need clarity around how the honor of authoring the
final release notes is bestowed. (mchua, 20:18:56)
3.
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-12/f-12-marketing-tasks.html (mchua,
20:22:13)
4. Briefing Ambassadors about F12 (mchua, 20:25:25)
1.
http://www.allbusiness.com/company-activities-management/sales-selling-sa...
(mchua, 20:28:45)
2. https://fedorahosted.org/marketing-team/report/3 (mchua,
20:30:18)
5. Fedora Insight (mchua, 20:36:51)
1. ACTION: mchua to check out what happened to zikula modules
questions update email to logistics and marketing (mchua, 20:42:59)
2.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-September/000206....
(mchua, 20:45:20)
3.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/logistics/2009-September/000206....
(mchua, 20:45:26)
4. ACTION: mchua to followup with itbegins to get
information/code/modules/packages/etc. to abadger1999 for FI zikula
modules (mchua, 20:45:55)
5. ACTION: mchua never mind finding the zikula modules
questions update email to logistics and marketing. Today is no longer
August, it's September. (mchua, 20:47:47)
6. ACTION: rbergeron to post FI workflow to mailing list and
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Insight#Workflow once computer is
toy-free :) (mchua, 20:48:40)
6. Marketing-fu++ (mchua, 20:49:52)
1. ACTION: mchua send
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/MarketingPlan to list and ask
for comments (mchua, 20:51:06)
7. marketing research (mchua, 20:52:56)
1. Market research thing-we-could-do #1: "users want X, we
delivered Y% of this" feedback loop with engineering - gauging user
needs. (mchua, 20:58:12)
2. Market research thing-we-could-do #2: start an open source
market research repository (if no such thing exists) (mchua, 20:59:51)
8. open floor (mchua, 21:01:36)
1. ACTION: mchua to ping SeanDaly on Fedora Classroom class on
Marketing again; I think he might be back this week or next (mchua,
21:02:38)
14 years, 7 months